Reweaving: The Most Intense Mending Technique Of All (ft. Hairan Zuchelli & Dr Tom Garcia)

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** Featuring Hairan Zuchelli **
YouTube: ‪@hsama‬
Instagram:   / @brazilianbaroness  

** Featuring Dr Tom Garcia **
Website http://drtomgarcia.com
Instagram:   / @tomgarcia_onfire  


** Further reading **
Rebecca Church article [details tbc at time of publication]

K E Seibold, "Dressing the Part: Indigenous Costume as Political and Cultural Discourse in Peru" from Contact, Crossover, Continuity: Proceedings of the Fourth Biennial Symposium of the Textile Society of America, September 22–24, 1994 (Los Angeles, CA: Textile Society of America, Inc., 1995), pp. 319–329.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/tsacon...

Blenda Femeinas, "Peruvian Costume and European Perceptions in the Eighteenth Century", The Journal of the Costume Society of America Volume 10, 1984 - Issue 1
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/1...

Met Museum extant example of an 18th-19th century Aymaran poncho acc.no.1999.47.254
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collect...

Jamiesons of Shetland, where I purchased the handspun yarn
https://www.jamiesonsofshetland.co.uk/

I used Threads article, "The Lost Art of Reweaving", available with a subscription to their archive at
https://threadsmagazine.com


** Footnotes **

1 - Ponchos of the 19th century from the collection of Carlos G. Daws (1870-1947), displayed at the exhibition "200 years after the Crossing of the Andes" at the José Hernández Popular Art Museum in Buenos Aires in 2017. Image by Camila Feal, Archivo de fotografías del MAP José Hernández. CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

2 - Brazilian president Luís Inácio Lula da Silva wearing a poncho in 2004. Image by Marcello Casal Jr./ABr. CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

3 - Lonco Mapuche Lloncon, c.1890. Image by Milet Ramírez, Gustavo (1860–1917), Memoria chilena. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons

4 - Aymara people of Jujuy, Argentina, c.1870. Image source AGN Argentina. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

5 - Poncho by an unnamed Aymara weaver, Bolivia, 17th-18th centuries, Made of cotton, warp: 89 in. weft: 58 in. William Siegal Gallery photo. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

6 - Woman of the Mapuche people of Chile. Image by MercurioMT, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

7 – Gaucho of the Argentine Republic, 1868. Image by Courret Hermanos Fotogs., Lima, Peru. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

8 - Traditionnal weaving, Cuzco, Peru. Image by Pethrus, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

9 - Woman weaving in Peru. Image by Tydence Davis from Las Vegas, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

10 - Quechua women weaving. Image by Thayne Tuason, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons

11 - Traditional Aymara ceremony in Copacabana, on the border of Lake Titicaca in Bolivia. Image by Kilobug, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

12 - Woman of the Aymara people. Image by Jerrye and Roy Klotz MD, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

13 - Reweaving video, which shows this technique as it is practiced in Japan. "The Magic of Kaketsugi Restoration" by yoshiko goto    • The magic of Kaketsugi restoration  

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Edited by Sophie Black at @triskellepictures
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